http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20548077-13762,00.html
A WOMAN has suffered severe burning to her anus after being
struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through
her body.
Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building.
She said: "I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.
"I don't remember much after that, but I was later told that the
lightning had travelled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth,
passing through my body.
"It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then
I don't remember much at all." Doctors at the city hospital where she
was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: "The accident is
bizarre but not impossible."
She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of
earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her
backside," a medic told local newspaper, 24 Sata.
"It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she
was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she
had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by
the blast."
24 Sata said the young woman had been released from hospital after being kept in overnight and was expected to make a full recovery.
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